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Plants & Animals Apr 7, 2023

Peptide that signals feeding suppression in jellyfish identified

A team affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan has identified a peptide that signals feeding suppression in jellyfish. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group dissected ...

Plants & Animals Apr 5, 2023

Monsters or masters of the deep sea? Why the deepest of deep-sea fish aren't as scary as you might think

How deep can fish live in the ocean? That question has captivated me for more than a decade. But my research team's discovery of the deepest sea fish, announced this week, might not be the final answer. There may be more. ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 27, 2023

Biologists develop new record bright red fluorescent protein

To understand why a cell divides, secretes hormones or transmits a signal to another cell, biologists often use a trick. They attach colored lights to the proteins of interest, so that they can follow the movements and interactions ...

Astronomy Mar 27, 2023

Hubble observes ram pressure stripping in galaxy JW100

The galaxy JW100 (lower right) features prominently in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The streams of star-forming gas dripping from the disk of the galaxy like streaks of fresh paint are formed by a ...

Plants & Animals Mar 23, 2023

Climate change threatens global fisheries

The diet quality of fish across large parts of the world's oceans could decline by up to 10% as climate change impacts an integral part of marine food chains, a major study has found.

Plants & Animals Mar 20, 2023

Jellyfish size might influence their nutritional value, new study finds

Drifting along in ocean currents, jellyfish can be both predator and prey. They eat almost anything they can capture, and follow the typical oceanic pattern of "large eats small." Now a recent University of British Columbia ...

Plants & Animals Mar 14, 2023

Coming soon to Florida beaches: Massive, messy and maybe record mounds of seaweed

A giant blob of seaweed, spanning 5,000 miles and weighing an estimated 6.1 million tons, threatens to blanket Florida beaches and Caribbean islands with smelly piles of decaying brown goop.

Paleontology & Fossils Mar 8, 2023

Paleontologists flip the script on anemone fossils

Billions of sea anemones adorn the bottom of the Earth's oceans—yet they are among the rarest of fossils because their squishy bodies lack easily fossilized hard parts. Now a team of paleontologists has discovered that countless ...

Astronomy Mar 6, 2023

Image: Hubble observes jellyfish galaxy JO201

A "jellyfish galaxy" with trailing tentacles of stars hangs in inky blackness in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As jellyfish galaxies move through intergalactic space, gas is slowly stripped away forming ...

Plants & Animals Feb 28, 2023

'Unusually high' number of turtle strandings in the UK and Ireland

Turtle strandings around Britain and Ireland appear to be on the rise this winter.

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